190 DeepSky+Dragons of Ara and their egg+Nick Axaris+Australia
- Category of competition
Deep Sky
- Your name and your country
Nick Axaris
Melbourne Australia
- Imaging title and target
Dragons of Ara and their egg
- Equipment used and the technical card
Optolong L-Extreme Filter 2 inch
Guidance and acquisition ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI 294MCpro, Guide camera ZWO 120mm mini
Telescope: TS-Optics Photoline 130 APO f7
Skywatcher ed72 and 0.85 reducer
Riccardi 0.75 reducer
- Imaging date and place
Melbourne Australia September -October 2022
I experimented with Astropixel processor and combined 2 stacked and calibrated images in HA and O3. One image from my Skywatcher ed72 and one from my ts130 so I then let Astropixel processor do its things and it combined them both into one giant image I then had to downsample, the result is a much better version, I combined them in Photoshop and processed and voila.
About 3 hours and a half of 10 minute total integration with the ED72 and 5 hours with the TS optics 130 APO
All with the 294mc pro and the Optolong L-Extreme on the Skywatcher NeQ6 mount